What do you refuse to get generic versions of?

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fisherman’s friend cough drops. They’re not the tastiest cough drops out there, but they fucking work.

    • DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      These and “Sucrets” - for when you throat hurts and you want novacaine in tablet form.

      Source: professional singer. These two have saved me many times.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      “The name Fisherman’s Friend” makes me think the cough drops are going to taste like fish oil or Powerbait.

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        1 year ago

        Nothing quite so disgusting, they’re the usual sorts of flavors you would expect to find in a cough drop. I taste mostly menthol and a bit of licorice, but they are definitely something that was made to be an effective cough drop first and foremost and tasting good was not a major consideration

        They are kind of ugly brown tablets that don’t look too dissimilar from maybe a pellet fish food for a koi pond or something. I have a hunch that I haven’t tested that you could probably get carp to bite on them if you tried to use them as bait, carp will go for some weird stuff